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Re:OpenSSH for Windows update by geofft on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:31PM (#10416748)
There are these two interesting commits, "Add pty mode support code":

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/commit/55f2ec682...

and "Add ANSI parsing engine and console draw support to SSH client":

https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/commit/7aac59e52...

Something about this reminds me of ANSI.SYS.

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Re:OpenSSH for Windows update by est on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:50PM (#10416804)
you could run ANSI.sys in modern cmd.exe, sadly there's no ANSI.sys in Win7 anymore.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.msdos.batch.nt/Y...

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Re:OpenSSH for Windows update by geofft on Monday October 19, 2015 @10:17PM (#10417045)
Cool. Looks like that is essentially listing DEVICE=ANSI.SYS in config.nt? Google results imply some things about 16-bit emulation here -- was that post about running actual DOS ANSI.SYS in a VDM running actual DOS COMMAND.COM, within a native Windows terminal?
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Re:OpenSSH for Windows update by est on Monday October 19, 2015 @10:40PM (#10417110)
IIRC, the command.com only bootstrap the ANSI coloring, after that you can run anything in cmd.exe
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